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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive

…of the Bride, the latter picked out by the directors as their favorite. There was time after the screenings for audience questions. I liked that a good portion of the

2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…period and beyond, the two directed some of the most popular and beloved titles in the Disney catalog: The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The

Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase

…executives and asked them if there would be any chance that I could direct something, and they said that there was very little chance of that. They were releasing one…

The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…

…Hopefully in 2022, we can put most of the dystopia behind us. But until then, dystopia was the theme of some of the best animated films released in 2021. The

The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over

…King. Towards the end of the 2010s, the merger with 20th Century Fox was met with a mixed reception, as some of the properties they acquired through the massive move…

Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation

…month for them to hear all of the 30 or more pitches, but eventually they called us back. Andrew told us that they knew we were the guys for the

The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition

…such as the Beauty And The Beast interquel The Enchanted Christmas, had had enormous success with the Lion King follow-up Simba’s Pride, released to DVD with The Little Mermaid in…

2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…in any of the group signings for The Owl House panelists [right]. And what massive lines these had, to the point that they went outside the convention center with the

Go under the sea with the first TV spot for The Little Mermaid

Little Mermaid swims into cinemas this Memorial Day. The Little Mermaid, visionary filmmaker Rob Marshall’s live-action reimagining of the studio’s Oscar®-winning animated musical classic, opens exclusively in theaters nationwide May…

AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.

…way. You know, all the eyes look the same, all the mouths look the same. Even the way some of them move, you know. The dad at the beginning of…

The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning

…cousins on the big screen when they got the chance. Slowly but surely the quality of the animation got better, too, as the crews became accustomed to recreating the characters,…

Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin

…songs, the styles, the models he had in mind when he was writing the songs. Then, the counterpoints are something I added to the material. AV: In the animated film,…

The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?

…is the third film from Sony to make the list in the little over a decade we’ve been doing this. It’s just the second sequel to take the top spot,…

Superman: The Complete Animated Series

The look of Krypton isn’t as original as the producers were striving for: they mention in the supplements that they wanted to go in a new direction, but the retro-30s…

Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!

…from there. AV: How were the storylines and the book of the show developed? GS: Well, at the time, there was a different director and a different book writer. There…

2021 Quick Review Recaps

…was. The scores are on a scale of to 10, with being the worst of the worst, and 10 the best of the best. Those scores are saved for the

A tribute to X. Atencio

…explain the fact that you got down to the bottom of the ride and you find the skeleton pirates? How did they get there? And why? They went down there…

Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle

…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the

The Little Mermaid grab bag #3: Two press releases

The campaign, which prominently features scenes and characters from Disney’s ocean-themed animated classic, The Little Mermaid, marks the first time that the three environmental organizations have partnered on the important…

The Little Mermaid teaser trailer is gorgeous

…opens exclusively in theaters nationwide May 26, 2023. The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest…

Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2

…it on LaserDisc, and then they did a DVD of it. They did The Puppetoon Movie. They had a Laser then they had a DVD. So, he was wanting to…

The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still

…light-hearted way. While the plot is a bit scattershot, the frenzied feel actually works well with the tone of the film. What really pulls together the disparate pieces is the

Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas

…wanted to have a little fun with them. Be a little self-aware of the genre we were emulating here. So, there’s a little poke at the genre here and there,…

An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara

…that there are two that really stand out to me. One is Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel, the Little Mermaid, who wrote the foreword of the book. I was…

Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red

…straight, if you kind of zoom in a little bit, it has a little bit of wobble. There’s no thin tapering. If you look at the characters, the ankles are…

The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?

…and, my favorite, the ultra-hilarious X-Terminators. Randall’s Picks Like the real world, the entertainment industry is feeling the effects of huge change. The worst of the Covid pandemic seems to…

An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations

the likes of Critical Role and The Adventure Zone showcasing the thrill and excitement in playing the game, managing to become sudden cultural sensations over the past several years. The

DC FanDome Online Event Recap

…Snyder proclaiming him “the heart of the movie”). There was also the announcement that the final runtime for the Snyder cut is four hours(!), and that it will be split…

Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast

…whereas the other ones have secondary colors: you have the green beast at the beginning, and then the more “let’s be friends” beast are blue and red, and then the

Flip The Frog: The Complete Series

…football cartoon follows, then the rather amorous old maid returns for the fun western spoof The Pony Express. Flip reverts to boyhood in The Music Lesson, then becomes a babysitter…